The Windows Store apps I use everyday, part 2
best application reference guide
This is the second part of my Windows Store app recommendation. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the first part , which reviewed more than 50 applications available for installation. In the first part, the most popular applications for working with social networks, applications supplied by Microsoft, news and media applications were reviewed.
In this part, I will talk about the best in my opinion applications for working with data, reference resources, editors of various content and other utilities.
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OneNote is without a doubt the best electronic notebook for Windows 8 today. Synchronization with the cloud, support for pen input, a radial menu unique to Windows 8 with controls. Highly recommend.
Bing cards , oddly enough for today the most functional map client for the Windows Store. Thanks to the cooperation with Nokia Maps, the maps already have everything you need: Russian names, house numbers, traffic jams, driving directions, turn-by-turn navigation.
Analogs: Yandex.Maps - the first release that can be considered a demonstration, while only traffic jams and address search are available. We are waiting for updates.
Maps Pro is a map client for a variety of systems: MapBox, Nokia, Stamen, ESRI, Bing, Nokia Mobile, Open Street Map. Many options for maps, overlays.
G Maps is an unofficial client for Google Maps.
Poster - the official client of the popular service afisha.ru. The latest information on events in your city.
ESPN FC - no kidding the best client for football fans. Choose and track your favorite teams, watch dozens of football leagues and championships, read the news. Must have!
DailyMotion is the official client for the popular video service. You can find videos for every taste.
Trello is the official client for the productivity service from the company Fog Creek Software of the famous Joel Spolsky. Create your own boards with tasks, share them with the team, track the implementation.
Analogs: flow.timer is a very sophisticated time-tracking and project management service.
TechDays is the official client for the video portal of technical reports on the Microsoft platform. Hundreds of video reports from experts and from the best conferences in Russian.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary is one of the oldest and most popular explanatory dictionaries of the English language. Pronunciation by native speakers in stock.
Analogues: Advanced English Dictionary is another huge dictionary, with pronunciation available for both American English and British.
Dictionary.com is another decent dictionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica needs no introduction. One of the oldest and largest encyclopedias in the world.
Analogs: the equivalent of the Britannica to be not easy, but still. The Free Dictionary is a decent encyclopedia.
Wikipedia needs no introduction.
The most beautiful Windows Phone application has become the most beautiful Windows Store app . Even if you do not drink cocktails, download and appreciate the beauty. Well, if you drink - this application is just a must have.
CookBook is an excellent and functional cookbook.
Analogs: iCookBook - no less excellent and functional cookbook. Put both!
Starved? - A great Russian project that will allow you to cook a bunch of dishes from completely ordinary products.
Photobucket is the official client for a popular photographic resource.
PhotoVault - access to beautiful professional photos.
The Big Picture - the best thematic albums of photographs from all over the world from the publisher Boston Globe.
Free Books is an application that gives access to thousands of classic books in English.
Analogs: Alexandra Reader - books are much smaller, but the client is also beautiful.
Film search is the official client of the Russian portal dedicated to films.
Analogs: Flixter - American portal with information about the movies.
Popcorn Time - another client with information about the latest cinema in English.
There are already several clients in the Windows Store for watching TED videos. I like Ted Talks .
Anime lovers .
There are already many customers in the Windows Store that help to track the output and viewing of the series of your favorite TV shows. In my opinion, TrackSeries is the best of them. List of TV shows, information, viewing marks, upcoming series for the week ahead.
MyEnglish is a popular Russian service for learning English.
Analogues: English Club - learning English from authors from the UK.
TOEFL Grammar Test is a simple application that allows you to try the TOEFL test.
Translators in the Windows Store is already a sea. I haven’t been looking a lot, in my opinion Talking Translator does everything as it should. Translates, voices translations in different languages, has the function of a contract for contextual translation from anywhere in Windows 8: select the text, select the “Sharing” button and receive the translation.
Analogs: A tourist's phrasebook is a simple dictionary with phrases in English and their pronunciation.
Musems is an application that will help you find museums around you, no matter what city of the world you are in.
Atlas of cat breeds - an application that was written by my colleague Dima Soshnikov. Do you like cats?
The official application ConsultantPlus allows you to conveniently search for the necessary information in the company's database.
A unique application from NASA - Be a Martian . Allows you to follow all the news of the rover Curiosity, watch fresh photos from the surface of Mars. In addition, a lot of information on previous starts to Mars, reference materials, answers to the question. Just a must have for all space enthusiasts. In addition, the application is also made cool.
This application is the essence of all Windows 8. One it completely shows the evolution from the primitive Paint of previous versions to the new version with full support for touch-screens. Thanks to the use of graphic acceleration, the sketches in FreshPaint look like real ones: the texture of the canvas that can be chosen is taken into account, the feathers are taken into account, the colors are mixed, creating other colors ... I consider this application a little masterpiece.
The application has a built-in mechanism for purchasing and loading ready-made templates for coloring.
Absolute Must Have!
Analogs: Autodesk SketchBook is a simple but nice application for sketching.
PhotoFunia will allow you to transform the selected portrait and place it in another order of your choice, or change it with the help of various effects. Very nicely made application.
The application from the company Corel, which will allow you to search and find great options for images and illustrations from the large collection.
The official application of the Russian chain of stores MediaMarkt. You can search for products and explore the assortment at different points.
Application for viewing PDF, with additional features and a nice-looking 3D-paging effect (mouse or finger).
Analogs: Reader - the application included in Windows 8.
Star Chart is a very beautiful application for the study of the night sky. Beautifully suggests the constellations, allows you to learn more about the planets ... In the presence of a demonstration mode with smooth animation and transitions. I highly recommend to astronomy lovers.
.NET developers are well acquainted with the package manager Nuget. This application allows you to quickly find packages and explore their contents.
An application that allows you to conveniently build mindmaps. Functional, beautiful with a lot of settings. But paid.
Analogs: NovaMind is less functional and not so beautiful, but free.
Fancy editor of electronic music in different styles. There are loadable kits, paid and free for any style and for every taste.
Analogs: Sequensor is a simple sequencer, but with a good bank of different types.
The official client of the service to search for tickets with a very convenient, intuitive and pleasant interface.
Official customer service.
The application that will allow you to track your parcels, including the "Mail of Russia".
Analogs: oTracking is a primitive, but a free application, and there is no “Russian Post” yet. If the toad smothers to buy the previous application, or track mostly foreign services - you can bet.
Trackage is another application for tracking parcels of foreign services. Automatically identifies the service by number.
Excellent functional barcode generator .
A cool utility from ABBYY that allows you to recognize scanned documents or photos through the cloud service.
The official client for the Shazam service, which allows you to recognize an artist, an album and a song by sound and get information about them.
Periodic table of elements to them. Mendeleev. Description of many elements are accompanied by photographs.
Advanced service for checking English grammar with error descriptions.
Excellent source of wallpapers for desktop and screensavers for Windows 8 from Vladstudio studio.
Useful application for users of the Windows Azure cloud platform. Allows you to manage your Windows Azure Storage.
The official client of the state portal “Gosuslugi”.
Official Qiwi Wallet Client .
MetroCommander is an attempt to make a two-pane file manager for finger management. On the whole, it’s nice, but you still have to work on the design The developer, by the way, is our countryman.
8 Zip is a very nice application that allows you to conveniently archive data and work with archives. Utility from the author MetroCommander, but it looks more beautiful.
The official client of the mail service Mail.ru.
Demo application from the popular ArcGIS Online mapping platform.
The official ICQ client .
Analogs: IM + is a famous and very common client for all instant messaging systems at once.
Messages VKontakte - the official messenger of the social network.
Cumulo is a client that combines access to several cloud file storage services at once: SkyDrive, Google Drive and DropBox. There are no official clients of the last two, so this application can be useful.
Utility system for accessing remote desktops.
The official client of the bank TKS. Convenient.
The application from the company PHYSICON, which offers to pass preparatory tests for the exam in 10 different subjects.
Matchbox Equations is an interesting application designed to explain the solution of equations in matches.
StumbleUpon is an internationally popular aggregator of interesting news, resources, pictures, videos, and so on, for you personally. Just launch the application and click the button endlessly flipping through interesting content. It will not be boring.
Magzter is a client for an online store of popular magazines. Tens of thousands of issues of popular magazines are available for purchase. Interestingly, the application uses its billing mechanism, which shows the flexibility of the Windows Store, which allows for different payment processing options.
Xmarks is a popular bookmarking service. In Windows 8, it integrates with a shared contract, allowing you to save links from anywhere.
Microsoft and ITMozg are running Windows 8 Hackathon. Join now!
3 days and 2 nights of coding, a team of experts, design and usability consultants, invited investors, special prizes from our partners - every four hours of the hackathon. And of course, the exciting atmosphere of an international Windows 8 development festival! Winners will get a chance to promote their application internationally.
Come to us for an international development holiday! Registration and all the details here: habrahabr.ru/special/microsoft/wowzapp
This is the second part of my Windows Store app recommendation. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the first part , which reviewed more than 50 applications available for installation. In the first part, the most popular applications for working with social networks, applications supplied by Microsoft, news and media applications were reviewed.
In this part, I will talk about the best in my opinion applications for working with data, reference resources, editors of various content and other utilities.
')
Onenote
OneNote is without a doubt the best electronic notebook for Windows 8 today. Synchronization with the cloud, support for pen input, a radial menu unique to Windows 8 with controls. Highly recommend.
Bing cards
Bing cards , oddly enough for today the most functional map client for the Windows Store. Thanks to the cooperation with Nokia Maps, the maps already have everything you need: Russian names, house numbers, traffic jams, driving directions, turn-by-turn navigation.
Analogs: Yandex.Maps - the first release that can be considered a demonstration, while only traffic jams and address search are available. We are waiting for updates.
Maps Pro is a map client for a variety of systems: MapBox, Nokia, Stamen, ESRI, Bing, Nokia Mobile, Open Street Map. Many options for maps, overlays.
G Maps is an unofficial client for Google Maps.
Poster
Poster - the official client of the popular service afisha.ru. The latest information on events in your city.
ESPN FC
ESPN FC - no kidding the best client for football fans. Choose and track your favorite teams, watch dozens of football leagues and championships, read the news. Must have!
Dailymotion
DailyMotion is the official client for the popular video service. You can find videos for every taste.
Trello
Trello is the official client for the productivity service from the company Fog Creek Software of the famous Joel Spolsky. Create your own boards with tasks, share them with the team, track the implementation.
Analogs: flow.timer is a very sophisticated time-tracking and project management service.
Techdays
TechDays is the official client for the video portal of technical reports on the Microsoft platform. Hundreds of video reports from experts and from the best conferences in Russian.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Dictionary is one of the oldest and most popular explanatory dictionaries of the English language. Pronunciation by native speakers in stock.
Analogues: Advanced English Dictionary is another huge dictionary, with pronunciation available for both American English and British.
Dictionary.com is another decent dictionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica needs no introduction. One of the oldest and largest encyclopedias in the world.
Analogs: the equivalent of the Britannica to be not easy, but still. The Free Dictionary is a decent encyclopedia.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia needs no introduction.
Cocktail flow
The most beautiful Windows Phone application has become the most beautiful Windows Store app . Even if you do not drink cocktails, download and appreciate the beauty. Well, if you drink - this application is just a must have.
Cookbook
CookBook is an excellent and functional cookbook.
Analogs: iCookBook - no less excellent and functional cookbook. Put both!
Starved? - A great Russian project that will allow you to cook a bunch of dishes from completely ordinary products.
Applications for amateur photographers
Photobucket is the official client for a popular photographic resource.
PhotoVault - access to beautiful professional photos.
The Big Picture - the best thematic albums of photographs from all over the world from the publisher Boston Globe.
Free books
Free Books is an application that gives access to thousands of classic books in English.
Analogs: Alexandra Reader - books are much smaller, but the client is also beautiful.
Film Search
Film search is the official client of the Russian portal dedicated to films.
Analogs: Flixter - American portal with information about the movies.
Popcorn Time - another client with information about the latest cinema in English.
Ted talk
There are already several clients in the Windows Store for watching TED videos. I like Ted Talks .
Anime seasons
Anime lovers .
TrackSeries
There are already many customers in the Windows Store that help to track the output and viewing of the series of your favorite TV shows. In my opinion, TrackSeries is the best of them. List of TV shows, information, viewing marks, upcoming series for the week ahead.
MyEnglish
MyEnglish is a popular Russian service for learning English.
Analogues: English Club - learning English from authors from the UK.
TOEFL Grammar Test is a simple application that allows you to try the TOEFL test.
Talking translator
Translators in the Windows Store is already a sea. I haven’t been looking a lot, in my opinion Talking Translator does everything as it should. Translates, voices translations in different languages, has the function of a contract for contextual translation from anywhere in Windows 8: select the text, select the “Sharing” button and receive the translation.
Analogs: A tourist's phrasebook is a simple dictionary with phrases in English and their pronunciation.
Musems
Musems is an application that will help you find museums around you, no matter what city of the world you are in.
Atlas of cat breeds
Atlas of cat breeds - an application that was written by my colleague Dima Soshnikov. Do you like cats?
Consultant Plus
The official application ConsultantPlus allows you to conveniently search for the necessary information in the company's database.
NASA Be a Martian
A unique application from NASA - Be a Martian . Allows you to follow all the news of the rover Curiosity, watch fresh photos from the surface of Mars. In addition, a lot of information on previous starts to Mars, reference materials, answers to the question. Just a must have for all space enthusiasts. In addition, the application is also made cool.
Freshpaint
This application is the essence of all Windows 8. One it completely shows the evolution from the primitive Paint of previous versions to the new version with full support for touch-screens. Thanks to the use of graphic acceleration, the sketches in FreshPaint look like real ones: the texture of the canvas that can be chosen is taken into account, the feathers are taken into account, the colors are mixed, creating other colors ... I consider this application a little masterpiece.
The application has a built-in mechanism for purchasing and loading ready-made templates for coloring.
Absolute Must Have!
Analogs: Autodesk SketchBook is a simple but nice application for sketching.
Photofunia
PhotoFunia will allow you to transform the selected portrait and place it in another order of your choice, or change it with the help of various effects. Very nicely made application.
Designs
The application from the company Corel, which will allow you to search and find great options for images and illustrations from the large collection.
Mediamarkt
The official application of the Russian chain of stores MediaMarkt. You can search for products and explore the assortment at different points.
Soda PDF 3D Viewer
Application for viewing PDF, with additional features and a nice-looking 3D-paging effect (mouse or finger).
Analogs: Reader - the application included in Windows 8.
Star chart
Star Chart is a very beautiful application for the study of the night sky. Beautifully suggests the constellations, allows you to learn more about the planets ... In the presence of a demonstration mode with smooth animation and transitions. I highly recommend to astronomy lovers.
Nuget Package Explorer
.NET developers are well acquainted with the package manager Nuget. This application allows you to quickly find packages and explore their contents.
MapMindz
An application that allows you to conveniently build mindmaps. Functional, beautiful with a lot of settings. But paid.
Analogs: NovaMind is less functional and not so beautiful, but free.
Music maker jam
Fancy editor of electronic music in different styles. There are loadable kits, paid and free for any style and for every taste.
Analogs: Sequensor is a simple sequencer, but with a good bank of different types.
Skyscanner
The official client of the service to search for tickets with a very convenient, intuitive and pleasant interface.
Pruffi
Official customer service.
Package tracker
The application that will allow you to track your parcels, including the "Mail of Russia".
Analogs: oTracking is a primitive, but a free application, and there is no “Russian Post” yet. If the toad smothers to buy the previous application, or track mostly foreign services - you can bet.
Trackage is another application for tracking parcels of foreign services. Automatically identifies the service by number.
Barcode generator
Excellent functional barcode generator .
ABBYY FineReader Touch
A cool utility from ABBYY that allows you to recognize scanned documents or photos through the cloud service.
Shazam
The official client for the Shazam service, which allows you to recognize an artist, an album and a song by sound and get information about them.
Periodic Table
Periodic table of elements to them. Mendeleev. Description of many elements are accompanied by photographs.
1Checker
Advanced service for checking English grammar with error descriptions.
Vladstudio companion
Excellent source of wallpapers for desktop and screensavers for Windows 8 from Vladstudio studio.
AzureStudio
Useful application for users of the Windows Azure cloud platform. Allows you to manage your Windows Azure Storage.
State services
The official client of the state portal “Gosuslugi”.
QIWI wallet
Official Qiwi Wallet Client .
MetroCommander
MetroCommander is an attempt to make a two-pane file manager for finger management. On the whole, it’s nice, but you still have to work on the design The developer, by the way, is our countryman.
8 zip
8 Zip is a very nice application that allows you to conveniently archive data and work with archives. Utility from the author MetroCommander, but it looks more beautiful.
Mail@mail.ru
The official client of the mail service Mail.ru.
Arcgis
Demo application from the popular ArcGIS Online mapping platform.
ICQ
The official ICQ client .
Analogs: IM + is a famous and very common client for all instant messaging systems at once.
Messages VKontakte - the official messenger of the social network.
Cumulo
Cumulo is a client that combines access to several cloud file storage services at once: SkyDrive, Google Drive and DropBox. There are no official clients of the last two, so this application can be useful.
Teamviewer
Utility system for accessing remote desktops.
Tinkoff Credit Systems
The official client of the bank TKS. Convenient.
Preparing for the exam
The application from the company PHYSICON, which offers to pass preparatory tests for the exam in 10 different subjects.
Matchbox equations
Matchbox Equations is an interesting application designed to explain the solution of equations in matches.
Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon is an internationally popular aggregator of interesting news, resources, pictures, videos, and so on, for you personally. Just launch the application and click the button endlessly flipping through interesting content. It will not be boring.
Magzter
Magzter is a client for an online store of popular magazines. Tens of thousands of issues of popular magazines are available for purchase. Interestingly, the application uses its billing mechanism, which shows the flexibility of the Windows Store, which allows for different payment processing options.
Xmarks
Xmarks is a popular bookmarking service. In Windows 8, it integrates with a shared contract, allowing you to save links from anywhere.
PS: Wowzapp 2012 from 9 to 11 November
Microsoft and ITMozg are running Windows 8 Hackathon. Join now!
3 days and 2 nights of coding, a team of experts, design and usability consultants, invited investors, special prizes from our partners - every four hours of the hackathon. And of course, the exciting atmosphere of an international Windows 8 development festival! Winners will get a chance to promote their application internationally.
Come to us for an international development holiday! Registration and all the details here: habrahabr.ru/special/microsoft/wowzapp
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